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Author Ruin, Hans, author.

Title Being with the dead : burial, ancestral politics, and the roots of historical consciousness / Hans Ruin.

Publication Info. Stanford, California : Stanford University Press, [2018]

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Description 1 online resource (xii, 249 pages).
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Series Cultural memory in the present
Cultural memory in the present.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents Thinking after life : historicity and having-been -- Thanatologies : the social meaning of burial -- Ancestrality : ghosts, forefathers, and other dead -- Necropolitics : contested communities and remains of the dead -- Ossuary hermeneutics : necropolitical sites of archaeology -- Visiting the land of the dead : history as necromancy -- The tomb of metaphysics : writing, memory, and the arts of survival.
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Subject Burial -- Philosophy.
Burial.
Philosophy.
Dead.
Dead.
Funeral rites and ceremonies.
Funeral rites and ceremonies.
Memory (Philosophy)
Memory (Philosophy)
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Other Form: Print version: Ruin, Hans. Being with the dead. Stanford, California : Stanford University Press, 2019 9780804791311 (DLC) 2018019691
ISBN 1503607763
9781503607767 (electronic book)
9780804791311 (hardcover)
0804791317
9781503607750
1503607755